Former Alabama player takes over for departed CB Darrelle Revis

The New York Jets have moved on from the Darrelle Revis era. While training camp started just a few weeks ago, Rex Ryan has already named the starter replacing Revis opposite Antonio Cromartie: rookie Dee Millner.

"I feel very comfortable with Dee being out there in regular personnel situations," Jets coach Rex Ryan said Tuesday to ESPN.com's Jane McManus.

Millner passed Kyle Wilson for the job from seemingly day one after he signed his contract. Millner put pads on day one and played with the first-team defense. That's landed him the starting gig opposite Cromartie.

Millner, the ninth-overall pick in this year's NFL Draft, held out as the start of training camp began. But he signed a $12.66 million deal on July 28.

The corner back out of Alabama had offseason shoulder surgery, but that has not had any effect on what he's done on the field.

"He's getting a lot of pounding on his shoulder and everything," Cromartie said. "So for him it's just getting the reps and getting the physical part down for that shoulder."

Millner has a challenging task ahead of him in trying to make Jet fans forget about Darrelle Revis. Ryan has gone out of his way to try to take some pressure off Millner by saying he is not a replacement to Revis, who is now with Tampa Bay.

"You know after the first week or so, I was good," Milliner said. "I was caught up with everything. Like I said it's just getting out there and doing more reps now and doing more plays and getting more into it as we go."